Wednesday, 11 May 2016

539 AD and 1014 AD: The tsunamis from hell

Two massive comet
or asteroid strikes in the past 1500 years altered Eastern North America’s
history. The one in 539 AD devastated the South Atlantic Coast and permanently
changed its geography. It left the South Atlantic Coastal Plain
almost uninhabited. Hundreds of Uchee and Muskogean communities were
wiped off the face of the earth. For obvious reasons, survivors headed
north to the mountains.

Over a
decade ago, I attended a conference in Macon, GA on the Swift Creek Culture. An
anthropology professor matter-of-factly mentioned that all the Swift
Creek Culture villages in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain were abandoned
around 550 AD. About the same time, a large town with mounds on the
Etowah River in Northwest Georgia began a rapid decline.

I asked the
professor that didn’t he think it was odd that all these villages were below
the Fall Line, while the Swift Creek Culture continued above the Fall Line in
the Upper Piedmont and Southern Appalachians? About 50 years later, the
mound-building Napier Culture appeared in the same region.

The
professor had no answer and presented the impression that this was not
significant issue. He was wrong, and geologists now have the
answer. It’s happened before and it could happen again.

Computer
model of a comet striking the Atlantic Ocean – by Sandia National Laboratory

The
1014 AD tsunami in the North Atlantic

A thousand
years ago the coasts of North America and Western Europe were devastated by the
impact of an object or objects from space. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed
by a combination of superheated steam and supersonic particles in North
America, followed by sudden wall of water that came crashing down on
communities in North America and Europe a few hours later.

A recent
computer simulation, which created the image above, was carried out by the
scientists of the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. It calculated the impact of a comet striking the North
Atlantic Ocean at a speed up to 150,000 mph (241,401 km/h). All humans
living on the coast from Newfoundland to Florida would have been exterminated.

In South
Carolina, the tidal surge would have drowned most people living around Winyah
Bay, Charleston Bay and Port Royal Sound, leaving the bays uninhabited. In
Georgia, the tidal surge would have pushed up the Altamaha and Savannah Rivers
at least 50 miles, inundating riverside villages.

Evidence
in Europe of a catastrophe in 1014 AD

European
scholars have always known about the records of a massive wave of water that swept up the
rivers and estuaries of northwestern Europe on September 28, 1014. That
would be September 22 in the calendar used today. Historians in each
country affected probably assumed that the tsunami was a local phenomenon until
recent years, when they began comparing notes. There was no mention of
earthquakes prior to the tidal wave. They suspected that something
extremely large or a cluster of large objects struck the North Atlantic Ocean,
but initially couldn’t prove it.

Dr. Simon
Haslett, a geology professor at the University of Wales has been studying the
accumulating evidence produced by other geologists, and also historians.
In 2012 he found evidence of tsunami damage along the coasts all continents
that adjoin the Atlantic. He also found absolute proof both in geological
and historical records of a smaller tsunami that killed thousands of people
along the coasts of Cornwall, Wales and Ireland on January 20, 1606 AD.

The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells us that in England 1014 AD, on the night of St.
Michael’s day (September 28, 1014) “came
the great sea-flood, which spread wide over this land, and ran so far up as it
never did before, overwhelming many towns, and an innumerable multitude of
people.”

It is
estimated that about 80,000 people died in the British Isles from this
wave. The numbers may have been higher, because Irish and Scottish
geological records indicated even more catastrophic effects on their Atlantic
coasts. However, there is less specific information about which towns and
villages were destroyed. Several credible observers stated that there was a
blue haze in the night time sky for many years after the tidal wave.

Other
Medieval records confirm the geological evidence. William of Malmesbury in “The
History of the English Kings” (vol. 1) states, “A tidal wave, of the sort which the Greeks call euripus,
grew to an astonishing size such as the memory of man cannot parallel, so as to
submerge villages many miles inland and overwhelm and drown their inhabitants.”

A sea flood
is also mentioned in the Chronicle of Quedlinburg Abbey (Saxony), where it
states many people died as a result of the flood in the Low Countries (Jutland,
Holstein, Friesland, the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1014. Lower waves
also struck Denmark and Sweden.

The
1014 tsunami in North America

Now
geologists in North America are finding solid evidence that the effects of the
1014 tsunami
or a cluster of tsunamis in that year were even more catastrophic on the
Atlantic Coast. The impact was so violent that extraterrestrial debris
splattered inland along the coasts of Canada and the United States southward to
the islands of the Caribbean.

Forensic
geologist Dallas Abbott of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia
University has found evidence of a large meteor or comet strike in the middle
of the Atlantic Ocean, which hurled extraterrestrial debris over 3800 km (2361
miles) to a bog in the Black Rock Forest in New York. The material was dated to
around 1014 AD.

Abbot also
found debris from a meteor or comet strike in the Lesser Antilles in the
Caribbean Basin that also dated to 1014 AD. Evidence of such a mega-tsunami
during the early 11th century in the Atlantic Ocean is undoubtedly also lurking
along the coastlines of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida.

In 2007 a
team of North Carolina geologists, led by Stephen Culver, Kathleen Ferrell and
Benjamin Horsea, published evidence that the coastline of their state had once
been protected by a chain of barrier islands and tidal marshes such as those
that shield the mainland of Georgia. Either a Class 5 hurricane or a tsunami
had destroyed these islands in the 11th century.

The Outer
Banks are the remnants of these islands, which were splashed back by the
ripples of a tidal surge or tsunami. These geologists are further concerned
that multiple fractures in the Continental Shelf could cause the Outer Banks to
slide into the ocean, creating a mega-tsunami.

The scale of
this 1014 disaster would have had a major cultural impact on the indigenous
peoples of the Americas. There are stone inscriptions of a great flood along
the coast of Mexico and Central America in the early 11th century AD. It is
possible that the Aztec legend of the death of the Fourth Sun originated in the
cataclysmic events of 1014 AD.

Since the
late 20th century archaeologists have known that many new
communities appeared in what is now the Southeastern United States in the
period between 1000 AD and 1050 AD. They cultivated several crops indigenous to
Mesoamerica and South America. They introduced much more sophisticated
architecture and town planning concepts.

Newcomers
also appeared at a thriving village near the confluence of the Mississippi and
Ohio Rivers, now called Cahokia, during that era. By 1050 AD the
newcomers were razing the original village and building a city on a grand
scale. Was massive destruction along the Gulf Coast and in the Caribbean
Basin associated with these stark changes?

Currently,
the earliest radiocarbon date for the Track Rock Terrace Complex in the Georgia
Mountains is c. 1018 AD. It is undoubtedly no coincidence that the
construction of that particular terrace followed the tsunami and multiple
meteor strikes. What better location to avoid a wall of ocean water
coming at you than living on the crest of a mountain?

Research
into the 1014 AD disaster reveals an earlier one

Geologists
have recently discovered evidence that an earlier comet or asteroid strike and
tsunami in 539 AD,
combined with volcanic eruptions, probably had an even more catastrophic impact
on the world . . . in particular, the Southeastern United States and Caribbean
Basin. The natural disaster brought down several civilizations in the
Americas and triggered the Dark Ages in Europe.

The large
lakes near the Fall Line, seen by early explorers of South Carolina and
Georgia, probably were 1500 year old vestiges of a massive comet or asteroid
strike. As will be explained below, there was formerly earthen dams
across coastal rivers, in some locations over 100 feet (32 m) high

Once ice
cores in Greenland and Iceland had revealed a massive spike of atmospheric
ammonia levels in 1014, scientists decided to go further into the past.
It has been known since 2010 that massive volcanic eruptions during the 530s AD
in Mexico and Iceland left large level of trace minerals in the Arctic ice
sheet. This caused the scientists to originally miss something else going
on in 539 AD.

In 2013, Dr.
Robert Dull of the Environmental Science Institute at the University of Texas
in Austin announced results of tests, which indicated that the Ilopango volcano in El
Salvador kicked off a period of cooling in the world’s climate. In 536 at
least two large volcanoes also erupted in Iceland. For decades afterward
a bluish haze over the northern hemisphere and tropics caused famines and probably
a horrific plague.

A strain of
bubonic plague began in China and by 540 AD wiped out somewhere between 30% and
50% of the population of the old Roman Empire. This “Little Ice Age”
ushered in the Dark Age of Europe and made the Eastern Roman Empire extremely
vulnerable to future invasions by Islamic armies from rural desert regions in
the interior of the Middle East that were far less affected by the plague.

In 2009,
Dallas Abbot of Columbia University found nodules associated with a major
asteroid or comet strike at the “500s AD level” of the Greenland Ice
Shelf. She insisted that either a comet or asteroid played a role in the
climatic catastrophe. In 2010 a Greek archaeologist, Dr. Amand Laoupi,
reinforced Abbot’s theories by revealing a second ammonia spike in the Arctic
ice shelf in 539 AD. The spike was clearly unrelated to Icelandic
volcanic activity.

When a large
meteor, asteroid or comets strikes the ocean, intense heat and mechanical
energy, plus several gases are released into the atmosphere. These gases
are trapped in the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps. Volcanic eruptions leave
several chemical traces in the ice caps; primarily sulfates. There was an
enormous ammonia spike in 1014 AD. Volcanoes do not emit ammonia.

In 2013 two
scientists in Japan, Haruna Sugahara and Koichi Mimura, finally answered the
question of whether the catastrophic strikes in 539 AD and 1014 AD were
asteroids or comets. It was already known that comets were essentially
dirty ice balls that contained the type of debris which could become the type
of nodules that Dallas Abbot had found in several locations along the Atlantic
Coast.

In 1994
chunks from the Shoemaker-Levy Comet crashed into Jupiter, creating massive
explosions, visible on earth. The largest explosion was the width of the planet
Earth. The Japanese scientists’ analyzed the electro-magnetic waves emitted by
these explosions. Shoemaker-Levy contains large amounts of frozen
ammonia. A super-sized comet striking the Atlantic Ocean could have
both caused gargantuan shock waves and filled the atmosphere with ammonia.

The recent
computer simulations by the Sandia National Laboratory found that superheated
steam, ammonia and the solid particles within a comet would be ejected at
sub-orbital velocities into the edge of the exosphere (space.) This would
cause them to be more equally spread around the globe than the pollution from
volcanoes. The combined effect of both the comet and the volcanoes would
be sufficient to cause a Little Ice Age on earth AND chemically disrupt the
photosynthesis of plants for many decades. The presence of ammonia high in the
atmosphere would explain the blue haze that enveloped Earth for several years
after the 1014 AD.

The location
of the 539 AD comet strike was somewhere in the ocean channel between Florida
and the Bahamas. The scientists, studying this strike and resultant
tsunami did not delve into its impact pattern because they were from other
regions of the world. They were primarily interested in its effect
on the world’s climate.

Cultural
collapse in Eastern North America

The decline
of the Hopewell Culture in the late 400s AD is widely known. Construction at
Hopewell sites is believed to have halted by 500 AD. However, the precise date
of the last Hopewell construction has never been fixed. The disappearance
of the Hopewell Culture has been linked to a series of volcanic eruptions in
Mexico and Central America that rapidly cooled the climate of that part of the
world.

The sudden
decline in the mid-500s AD of an advanced, Native American society of town
builders in the Lower Southeast is less well known. Known as the Swift
Creek Culture, these people lived in towns with large mounds unlike the
Hopewell People, who lived in transient villages. The Swift Creek towns
were generally located in or near fertile river bottom lands. This
suggests that they were seriously into farming. The best known Swift Creek
towns are today called Leake Mounds, near Cartersville, GA (northwest
mountains) and Kolomoki Mounds, near Blakely, GA (Gulf Coastal Plain.)

Unlike the
Hopewell Culture, the Southeastern towns and villages seemed to be thriving up
until the mid-500s. Something
caused the sudden abandonment of the villages near the coast in that era.

During that
same period, people in Kolomoki Mounds began living in underground homes, known
as keyhole houses. The Gulf Coastal Plain has a humid, sub-tropical
climate. Before and after the keyhole house period, Native Americans in
the region lived in lightly structured huts that were designed for ventilation.
These lightly structured houses left very few traces for archaeologists
to uncover. Burrowing into the ground is something one does to say warm when it
is cold outside.

Three
hundred miles to the north at the Leake Mounds in the Etowah River Valley near
Cartersville, GA, archaeologists did not find any keyhole houses, but the
population dropped suddenly. Many villages and towns that had been
occupied since 200 BC-100 BC were abandoned in that region.

Architectural
evidence suggests that the climate in the Scioto River Basin of Ohio became so
bitterly cold during the late 400s and early 500s AD that humans had no time or
energy to maintain ceremonial earthworks. Three hundred and seventy miles
southward in northwest Georgia, the climate chilled to the point that
agriculture was not possible, so people dispersed into hunter-gatherer
villages. Three hundred miles farther south in Southwest Georgia,
gardening was still possible, but winters were like those normally seen in the
Great Lakes Region.

A
tsunami debris ridge overlooked by geologists

While
searching for the actual site of Fort Caroline in 2013, I stumbled upon a
geological feature, completely ignored by regional geologists. A
major reason for this lapse of scientific curiosity is the hyper-conservative
environment among academicians in the Lower Southeast right now. So
when scientists elsewhere discovered a massive tsunami on the South Atlantic
Coast, no one locally dared to “make waves” (if you excuse the pun) by challenging
orthodox descriptions of the coastal region’s geological history.

The
commander of Fort Caroline, Captain René de Laudonnière, spoke frequently in
his memoir about his “beloved little mountain” from which he could see the
ocean 12 miles away.
The current 1/12th scale, fake Fort Caroline is five miles from the ocean.
That seemed impossible. It would required a hill about 80 feet tall to
see over the trees all the way to the ocean.

I looked
around for such an elevation on topographic maps. By golly,
there was a strange 85 feet high ridge, perpendicular to the Altamaha River, 12
miles inland just as Captain René de Laudonnière had
described. It did not follow the pattern of the “marine terraces”
created by gradual receding of the Atlantic during the last Ice Age. Yet
no geological text even mentioned it. Surely, some Georgia
geologist would have questioned such an abnormal feature, but it seemed to be
the same situation as the Georgia archaeologists ignoring all the stone
ruins. They didn’t understand it so they didn’t dare mention
it. The ridge did not fit the “model” which some authority figure had
created for geological change.

The
Georgia Coast’s 539 AD tsunami debris ridge is superimposed over the natural
landscape. In this infrared image of a section of Glynn County, GA (Brunswick)
the marine terraces have a distinctly different orientation than the 65-85′
high tsunami debris ridge.

The pattern
of this ridge exactly matched satellite images of the debris ridge left by the
2011 tsunami in Japan, only it was much, much taller. According to
research done by scientists at the USGS and universities in the Northwestern United
States, an 85 feet high debris ridge today would be equivalent to a 120
feet tall tsunami! A 1500 year old, 85 feet tall, eroded debris
ridge might have been created by a 150 feet tall or higher tsunami. The
catastrophic damage was unimaginable, but it would have been followed by an
earthen dam along the entire coast from Savannah to St. Augustine.

Most of
Georgia’ and Northeast Florida’s Coastal Plain would have been under water for
decades, if not centuries. The patterns of rivers would have been altered
as some debris ridge dams broke before others.

That is
exactly what we see today. The original outlet of the St. Johns
River near St. Augustine was blocked by the debris ridge, which was much closer
to the ocean in Florida. We
will get to that next. There were once barrier islands
between Jacksonville and St. Augustine. The backed up waters first broke
through at St. Marys Sound, GA between Cumberland and Amelia Island, scouring a
deep bay. Much more recently, they broke through at the current mouth of
the St. Johns River. This is why the mouth of the St. Johns was too
shallow for sea-going vessels, until it was dredged in the 1850s.

I then
charted the location and height of the debris ridge with GIS software.
That gave surprising results. A section of an ellipse was
visible. I then converted these points into the mathematical equation for
an ellipse.

The
tallest sections of the ellipsoid debris ridge were the farthest inland. This
told me that the comet or asteroid had entered the earth’s atmosphere at a low
pitch. Its shock waves had driven debris laterally at a northwestern angle.

As can be
seen below, the comet or asteroid struck from the southeastern skies off the
coast of Florida between St. Augustine and Cape Canaveral at an obtuse angle
and low pitch. The shock wave forces were lateral off Northern
Florida so its barrier islands were obliterated and pushed to the mainland.

Note in
the inset that the highest section of the 1500 year old debris ridge is visible
and at the apogee of the ellipse. The comet struck at the red dot, the
southern axis of the ellipse.

In
contrast, just north of present day Cape Canaveral, the shock waves were
directed in a southwestward and southward direction. The contents of the
obliterated barrier islands were pushed eastward by the resultant curvilinear
forces, created by the resistance of the land mass to these forces. The
result was the creation of Cape Canaveral.

Geologists
have always speculated on the odd shape of Cape Canaveral because it seems
contradictory to the northward flow of the Gulf Stream. It is likely that
this cape originally extended much farther into the ocean.

The 539 AD
and 1014 AD tsunamis are established scientific facts now. However, to
date, anthropologists have not changed their orthodox explanations of the South
Atlantic Region’s Native American history. It is now known that
there were two population extermination events in that region during the past
1500 years. There is little doubt that such cultural traumas affected the
future.

Could a
tsunami strike the Atlantic Coast of North America again? Scientists say,
“Yes.” Might want to carry a good life preserver and football helmet
along the next time you meander down to the beach.

Note:
Architects and structural engineers are required to have an extensive,
professional level knowledge of the Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, which was
the branch of physics, utilized to calculate the comet’s impact.
Comets leave very little long term debris residue, since they are essentially
balls of dirty ice.

Richard
Thornton is a professional architect, city planner, author and museum exhibit
designer-builder. He is today considered one of the nation’s leading experts on
the Southeastern Indians. However, that was not always the case. While at
Georgia Tech Richard was the first winner of the Barrett Fellowship, which
enabled him to study Mesoamerican architecture and culture in Mexico under the
auspices of the Institutio Nacional de Antropoligia e Historia. Dr. Roman
Piňa-Chan, the famous archaeologist and director of the Museo Nacional de
Antropologia, was his fellowship coordinator. For decades afterward, he
lectured at universities and professional societies around the Southeast on
Mesoamerican architecture, while knowing very little about his own Creek
heritage. Then he was hired to carry out projects for the Muscogee-Creek Nation
in Oklahoma. The rest is history. Richard is the Tribal Historic Preservation
Officer for the KVWETV (Coweta) Creek Tribe and a member of the Perdido Bay
Creek Tribe. In 2009 he was the architect for Oklahoma’s Trail of Tears
Memorial at Council Oak Park in Tulsa. He is the president of the Apalache Foundation,
which is sponsoring research into the advanced indigenous societies of the
Lower Southeast.

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